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With Gnome my external hard drive always mounts and is seen on my desktop. With KDE I always have to go to computer to mount it. This is not a huge problem except that it takes forever for my Amarok library to rebuild itself. Is there a way to make it mount at boot?

My internal HD is only 250 GB. Not large enough for my collection. But I just figured out a suitable work around. I didn't have much time to play around last night, but I found that if I mount the drive before I open Amarok, that Amarok maintains my collection.

mount removable devices as normal userpmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normalusers to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. Thisprovides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopiaproject and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.

This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads someinformation like device labels and mount options from hal and passesthem to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use thisfeature.

If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able totransparently mount encrypted volumes.

Canonical does not provide updates for pmount. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community.